I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The National Journal’s Expert Blog is hosting a debate this week on its on whether the U.S. should place a moratorium on offshore drilling, pitting environmental leaders who support the idea against others who say this would be a bad idea given the country’s heavy dependence on oil.
The debate comes as the BP Gulf oil spill has just displaced the Exxon Valdez incident in Alaska in 1989 as the worst oil spill in U.S. history based on updated estimates of the amount of oil flowing from the underwater well.
According to the Associated Press:
Even using the most conservative estimate, the new numbers mean the leak has grown to nearly 19 million gallons over the past five weeks, surpassing the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, which at about 11 million gallons had been the nation’s worst spill. Under the highest Gulf spill estimate, nearly 39 million gallons may have leaked, enough to fill 30 school gymnasiums.
